# US 11,444,743 B2 · Deactivating resources for repetitions of periodic communications > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,444,743 B2 - Document ID: US11444743B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/879,503 - Filed: 2020-05-20 - Published: 2021-01-07 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2019-07-03 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Yan Zhou; Konstantinos Dimou; Tao Luo; Kazuki Takeda; Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian; Mostafa Khoshnevisan; Xiaoxia Zhang; Sony Akkarakaran; Hamed Pezeshki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11444743B2 ## CPC - H04L 5/0091: {Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information} - H04L 5/0098: {Signalling of the activation or deactivation of component carriers, subcarriers or frequency bands} - H04L 1/0009: {by adapting the channel coding (H04L1/1812 takes precedence)} - H04L 1/1657: {Implicit acknowledgement of correct or incorrect reception, e.g. with a moving window} - H04L 5/0023: {Time-frequency-space} - H04L 5/0044: {Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH} - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)} - H04L 5/006: {Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling} - H04L 5/0082: {at predetermined intervals} - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04W 76/27: Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states - H04W 80/02: Data link layer protocols - H04L 5/001: {the frequencies being arranged in component carriers} - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - H04W 16/28: using beam steering - H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration for periodic communications. The UE may determine that the UE has successfully received a respective initial transmission in each transmission cycle of a threshold number of transmission cycles associated with the periodic communications. The UE may deactivate repetitions in one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station, a configuration for periodic communications; and deactivating repetitions in one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on a determination that the UE has successfully received a respective initial transmission in each transmission cycle of a threshold number of transmission cycles associated with the periodic communications, wherein a number of the threshold number of transmission cycles is greater than one, wherein each transmission cycle, of the threshold number of transmission cycles, includes a first time period for the respective initial transmission and a second time period for a respective set of repetitions, and wherein the one or more transmission cycles are subsequent to the threshold number of transmission cycles. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the respective set of repetitions are transmitted using a corresponding set of beams. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the threshold number of transmission cycles includes multiple consecutive transmission cycles. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the UE has successfully received the respective initial transmission in each transmission cycle of the threshold number of transmission cycles by determining that the UE has transmitted a threshold number of acknowledgements for the respective initial transmissions. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein deactivating the repetitions comprises refraining from monitoring for the repetitions in the one or more transmission cycles. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, to the base station, a request to deactivate the repetitions. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the request is transmitted in uplink control information, a media access control (MAC) control element (CE), a radio resource control (RRC) message, or a combination thereof. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein each respective initial transmission is a respective physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication, and wherein each respective set of repetitions includes one or more of one or more PDSCH communications or one or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communications. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the repetitions are deactivated further based at least in part on a determination that a link quality of a link between the UE and the base station satisfies a link quality threshold. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration indicates the number of the threshold number of transmission cycles. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the number of the threshold number of transmission cycles is based at least in part on mobility associated with the UE, a coherence time of a channel used for communication between the UE and the base station, or a combination thereof. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising activating repetitions in a transmission cycle, subsequent to the one or more transmission cycles, based at least in part on a subsequent determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed after deactivating the repetitions or that a subsequent initial transmission from the base station has not been successfully received. ### Claim 13 A method of wireless communication performed by a network node, comprising: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a configuration for periodic communications; and deactivating repetitions in one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on a determination that the network node has received a respective acknowledgement of an initial transmission in each transmission cycle of a threshold number of transmission cycles associated with the periodic communications, wherein a number of the threshold number of transmission cycles is greater than one, wherein each transmission cycle, of the threshold number of transmission cycles, includes a first time period for the respective initial transmission and a second time period for a respective set of repetitions, and wherein the one or more transmission cycles are subsequent to the threshold number of transmission cycles. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the respective set of repetitions are transmitted using a corresponding set of beams. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein deactivating the repetitions comprises refraining from transmitting the repetitions in the one or more transmission cycles. ### Claim 16 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting, to the UE, an instruction to refrain from monitoring for the repetitions. ### Claim 17 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein each respective acknowledgement is for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication, and wherein each respective set of repetitions includes one or more of one or more PDSCH communications or one or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communications. ### Claim 18 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the repetitions are deactivated further based at least in part on a determination that a link quality of a link between the UE and the network node satisfies a link quality threshold. ### Claim 19 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the configuration indicates the number of the threshold number of transmission cycles. ### Claim 20 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the number of the threshold number of transmission cycles is based at least in part on mobility associated with the UE, a coherence time of a channel used for communication between the UE and the network node, or a combination thereof. ### Claim 21 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising activating repetitions in a transmission cycle, subsequent to the one or more transmission cycles, based at least in part on a subsequent determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed after deactivating the repetitions or that a subsequent initial transmission from the network node has not been successfully received by the UE. ### Claim 22 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising instructing another network node or transmit receive point to refrain from transmitting at least one of initial transmissions or repetitions to the UE in the one or more transmission cycles. ### Claim 23 A method of wireless communication performed by a wireless communication device, comprising: determining that the wireless communication device has successfully received a respective initial transmission or a respective acknowledgement of an initial transmission in each transmission cycle of a threshold number of transmission cycles associated with periodic communications; and deactivating repetitions in one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on the determination, wherein a number of the threshold number of transmission cycles is greater than one, wherein each transmission cycle, of the threshold number of transmission cycles, includes a first time period for the respective initial transmission and a second time period for a respective set of repetitions, and wherein the one or more transmission cycles are subsequent to the threshold number of transmission cycles. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The method of claim 23, wherein deactivating the repetitions comprises refraining from monitoring for the repetitions in the one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on determining that the wireless communication device has successfully received the respective initial transmission in each transmission cycle of the threshold number of transmission cycles associated with periodic communications. ### Claim 25 (depends on 23) The method of claim 23, wherein deactivating the repetitions comprises refraining from transmitting the repetitions in the one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on determining that the wireless communication device has successfully received the respective acknowledgement of the initial transmission in each transmission cycle of the threshold number of transmission cycles associated with periodic communications. ### Claim 26 A wireless communication device, comprising: a memory; and one or more processors configured to: determine that the wireless communication device has successfully received a respective initial transmission or a respective acknowledgement of an initial transmission in each transmission cycle of a threshold number of transmission cycles associated with periodic communications; and deactivate repetitions in one or more transmission cycles based at least in part on the determination, wherein a number of the threshold number of transmission cycles is greater than one, wherein each transmission cycle, of the threshold number of transmission cycles, includes a first time period for the respective initial transmission and a second time period for a respective set of repetitions, and wherein the one or more transmission cycles are subsequent to the threshold number of transmission cycles. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The wireless communication device of claim 26, wherein the threshold number of transmission cycles includes multiple consecutive transmission cycles. ### Claim 28 (depends on 26) The wireless communication device of claim 26, wherein, when deactivating the repetitions, the one or more processors are configured to refrain from monitoring for the repetitions in the one or more transmission cycles. ### Claim 29 (depends on 26) The wireless communication device of claim 26, wherein, when deactivating the repetitions, the one or more processors are further configured to: transmit, to a base station, a request to deactivate the repetitions. ### Claim 30 (depends on 26) The wireless communication device of claim 26, wherein the repetitions are deactivated further based at least in part on a determination that a link quality of a link between the wireless communication device and a base station satisfies a link quality threshold.